Professor
Nationality : italian, swiss
Office : ODY 2.05
Phone : [+41 21 69] 30050
Fax : [+41 21 69] 30060
Biography
Luisa Lambertini is a Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where she holds the Chair of International Finance. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995, her Master of Science in Economics from the University of Warwick in 1989 and her Laurea cum Laude from the Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna in 1987. Before joining EPFL in 2007, Professor Lambertini was a faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles, Boston College and Claremont McKenna College. Professor Lambertini has worked with the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank; she has been a Hoover National Fellow and she has received the award I Numeri UNO in 2026.
Professor Lambertini’s research focuses on the interaction of monetary and fiscal policies; on introducing housing and mortgage default in macroeconomic models; on the analysis of regulation and macro-prudential policies in models with financial institutions. Several of her papers have hundreds citations and her research has been published in prestigious journals like the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomicsand the Journal of International Economics.
Professor Lambertini has been Associate Vice President for Postgraduate Education at EPFL (January 2021 to February 2023) and Rector of USI (July 2023 to December 2025). She was President of the EPFL WISH Foundation in 2021-22 and Vice-President in 2019-21 and 2022-23. She was President of the International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association, 2019-20; Member of the Advisory Council of the Society for Computational Economics, 2016-19. In 2011, Professor Lambertini she was a member of the Committee for Funding Italian Research Project (PRIN).
She played in the Italian National Handball team from 1977 to 1987.